Glass Plate Crack Across Lonely, Flooded Rural Scene, Antique Cyanotype Printed from Broken Plate cast iron weight an early American tin toy

an early American tin toy maker based in NYC

I love the combination of drinking poem on one side paired with image of mother bird feeding her young on the opposite

Just the sort of find that makes my day

The mix included some pieces by him and some he acquired

which ranges from a Red Delicious sort of red to a little browner nearer the bottom

Glass Plate Crack Across Lonely, Flooded Rural Scene, Antique Cyanotype Printed from Broken Plate cast iron weight an early American tin toyThis one made me very happy to find a mounted cyanotype paper print, c. late 19th early 20th c. I believe, printed from a cracked glass plate negative. Capturing a desolate feeling rural landscape view, which looks to have flooded, judging from what I take for a wooden fence running toward the center from either side. Such that the crack feels quite apt, damage upon damage, while also animating in the image in what I find quite a beautiful way. And